Building inspections in Austral

It turns on the stage and the size of the house, and you get the number before committing. A single stage on a standard lot is at the lower end and a full handover on a large two storey at the upper. Send the address and stage through the quote form; travel across the south west is included.

Generally inside the same week, and often the following day where a pour date or a settlement is driving it. Slab is the one to call about early, because it can only happen between the steel being finished and the concrete arriving.

Inside a day of the attendance, and stage reports frequently the same night. On a working site, a day lost is a day the following trade has already covered the work.

Because Austral is the one suburb in the area where we hold a full set of pre-pour findings, and they show why the stage matters: cover short of the minimum, beam reinforcement not as detailed, formwork incomplete, a shower recess never formed. Every one of those is permanent once the truck arrives.

It is the fitting that ties the floor waste into the waterproofing membrane. Set at the wrong height it either sits proud of the falls so water cannot reach it, or it sits below the membrane termination so water passes around it. Either way the wet area does not drain the way it was designed to.

Slab, frame and handover as a minimum. Add lock-up if your build has complex services or a parapet roof, because that is where sarking, capping and expansion joints are still visible.

Yes. Your principal certifier attends to issue the construction and occupation certificates, not to hand you a defect list, and they are not engaged in your interest. Nothing in a standard NSW residential contract prevents your own consultant attending.

Stage and handover work is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. Pre-purchase follows AS 4349.1 and timber pest AS 4349.3, with AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for timber framing and AS 3740 for wet areas.

Yes. We hold a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. The licence number appears in the footer of every page here.

Statutory warranties under the Home Building Act 1989 run six years for major defects and two years for everything else, from completion. The shorter period passes quickly, which is why a written record of what was raised and when is worth keeping.

Everything is done by eye and by hand, without breaking into anything. We open nothing up, energise or pressure test no service, sample no ground and certify no engineering. Where an engineer, a plumber or a licensed pest controller is needed, the report says so and says why.

Leppington, Bringelly, Rossmore, Denham Court, Middleton Grange and West Hoxton, along with the rest of the south west growth area. No travel charge applies inside that ring.

You pass the list to your builder and we ring you to work through it. The point of that call is to separate the items that affect the structure from the ones that affect the finish.